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IIR system

A recursive system whose impulse response, in principle, never becomes exactly zero.

An IIR (infinite impulse response) system is recursive -- its difference equation feeds back at least one past output value -- so its impulse response has no guaranteed sample past which it becomes and stays exactly zero, even though it typically decays.

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FIR system
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